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Year2009

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Story / Additional InfoThe present artwork is an impressive example of Robert Longo's artistic output and assembles seven works as digital prints in a vertical row. The compilation is comprised of Untitled (Pillow from Consulting Room, 1938) 2001, Untitled (Heaven's Hole) 2000, Mike Test (Head of Goya) 2003, Untitled (Ophelia #9) 2002, Untitled (Saturn) 2006, Untitled (Cassandra) 2008 and Untitled (large black shark portrait) 2008. The grayscale composition is balanced by a red rose in the center. Each print represents the constantly recurring themes within the artist's oeuvre such as love, war, beauty, time, and the mystery of the being. The waves, the bombs, and the roses are the metonymies. Robert Longo describes them as all “things that were existing at the moment of their being: a bomb is supposed to explode, a rose … to bloom and a wave … to crash. "They are at the moment of their fulfillment.”

“I think I make art for brave eyes. I don't want to make art that will pat you on the back and tell you ever 

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Robert Longo - United States

Art Brokerage: Robert Longo American Artist: Robert Longo is an American artist best known for his detailed photorealistic drawings of jumping figures, sharks, tigers, and guns. Drawn in charcoal, graphite, and ink, his monochrome series Men in the City renders businessmen and women in a state of suspended animation, and brought the artist critical acclaim in the early 1980s. Born on January 7, 1953 in Brooklyn, NY, Longo studied sculpture with Cindy Sherman at the State University College in Buffalo, NY where he received his BFA in 1975. "I always think that drawing is a sculptural process," Longo has explained. "I always feel like I'm carving the image out rather than painting the image. I'm carving it out with erasers and tools like that." He has gone on to have his work shown at the 1983 and 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York and the 47th Venice Biennale. Longo currently lives and works in New York, NY. The artist's works are held in the collections of the Albertina in Vienna, the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, among others. Listings wanted.